Several people who own Amazon’s Echo speakers have reported a strange bug: the Alexa voice assistant has been laughing for no reason.
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If there seems to be more people using Chinese smartphones in the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta or Manila, that is because these brands now collectively outsell Samsung Electronics, the long-standing market leader in Southeast Asia.
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Foxconn Industrial Internet, a unit of the world’s biggest contract manufacturer whose products include Apple’s iPhones, was put on the fast track for securing the nod by China’s securities regulator to raise capital through an initial public offering.
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Tencent Holdings, the world’s largest video game company, is betting that its new initiatives in advertising and social media would spur growth amid renewed debate in China over gaming addiction among the youth.
“Social and performance-based advertising will be ...

While Samsung dominated the headlines from this year’s Mobile World Congress with the unveiling of its new flagship phones, the Galaxy S9 and S9+, LG – South Korea’s other tech giant – quietly announced a minor update to its autumn 2017 flagship, phone, the V30....

Chinese travellers may have one more essential gadget to pack for overseas trips after Sogou, China’s second largest search engine after Baidu, launched an AI-powered language translator, with more than 3,000 pre-sold within the first 24 hours.
The gadget, which...

Honor, the mobile sub-brand of Huawei Technologies that helped it become the world’s third-largest smartphone supplier, is likely to double its overseas shipments this year, underscoring the Chinese company’s dual-brand strategy with handsets available in a rang...

WeChat, China’s biggest social network and messaging app with more than 1 billion users, disabled the comments section of newly registered official accounts on Tuesday to comply with a Chinese government request.
Tencent Holdings, which operates the app on the C...

China, already the world’s biggest smartphone and internet market, appears set to become a major consumer of a range of gadgets enabled with artificial intelligence (AI), including voice-activated smart speakers and robots for the home, according to a new study....

Chip maker Qualcomm, blocked this week from a takeover bid amid national security fears, was already walking a Pacific tightrope: it has government and defence contracts in the United States, but two-thirds of its revenue come from China.
US President Donald Tru...

Multinational companies are experimenting with new ways to grab the attention of China’s consumers and are willing to spend several million yuan to garner attention in the world’s largest market.
The tool that companies such as McDonald’s and Nike have chosen ...

The six-legged robot was able to move faster when it stopped copying wildlife

Unexpected discovery: if a six-legged spider robot wants to win the race, he should touch the ground with only two legs at a time.

Robotics is very common biomimicry – engineers take as a basis for their development ideas, peeped by wildlife. This applies to both the design of new robots, and the mechanics of their actions. However, these solutions are not always the most effective. For example, researchers from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (Switzerland) recently found out that spider robots should learn a new method of movement.

Most insects touch the ground during the movement with three legs out of six. However, this way of moving loses in speed to another – when there are only two feet left on the ground. Tests have shown that such an unusual (and counterintuitive) method gives a 25% increase in speed, as you can see on this video.

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